The Flop House - Ep. #188 - Unfriended

Episode Date: October 3, 2015

It's the most magical time of the year! SHOCKTOBER! And this year we're kicking off with the millenials-on-a-computer-screen shocker "Unfriended." Meanwhile, Dan reads movie ad copy, Elliott talks Quidditch injuries, and Stuart reveals his poop fears.Movies recommended in this episode:The VisitThe Leopard ManThe Late Show

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Kaelin, Dan. Why are we so much spooook here tonight? Or today if you're listening it during the day, which I wouldn't recommend. The most magical time of the year, Shaktobur. Oh, the long-leaded month where we watch all horror movies as opposed to merely mostly horror movies. It's been a while since we watched horror movies. The spirit of shocktober flies around tossing gifts into your ears. That's how we're cow. So when I learned it's not this cool.

Like what sort of gift does it toss into your ears? Oh, fucking podcast. Like this one one and some bananas Some bananas which is definitely not a podcast the most Not most banana podcast where I eat a banana and then review it It's called simply bananas that much sure This banana is plain Tane or plain tane

But I love about it is the audience can- That's a five out of ten. The audience can never like, oh I heard that banana was good. I'll try it. You ate it, it's gone. That's a thing, you're always chasing the next banana. You might as well do a podcast where you were viewing the weather. It's like today was pretty nice.

Oh, yeah, I don't know what I'm supposed to do with that information now. Hmm. So what do we do on this podcast? Oh, sorry. I was. You don't review bananas. I was just going, but that was crazy. Crazy.

Or another word for crazy bananas. No, on this podcast, as when Stefani reminded us, we watched Mary Gavin Rossdale. That shit is bananas. We watched bad movie and we talk about it. And tonight we watch what we do in Chukto. Well, we watch horror movies because it's the spoochiest time of the year. I'll tell you what I think is the scariest time of the year. Tax season. Oh, I don't get him started. I'll tell you what I think is the scariest time of the year. Tax season. Oh, man, don't get him started. So am I ready for the blue color comedy tour yet?

Sure. Well, I mean, there needs to be more, I don't know, stuff about the color of your neck or what kind of vehicles you have in blocks of your- I tell you what my truck thinks is the scariest time of NASCAR tax season. There you go. And we're gonna find it with a little bomb.

Oh, Bob. So, don't patronize me. Sorry. So, shottober, scary movies. We watched a movie tonight. Now we're gonna talk about it. Dan, take it away. We're all shivering on the couch,

clutching each other for comfort, clutching our pearls. I'm hoping that a robber would not steal them in the dark We watched a movie called unfriended a horror movie with a digital age Yeah, I believe you just read the poster I believe you're referring to Deesniter's strange land I Dan. Oh, I thought I was doing it. I think I'm at Fear.com. I thought you were talking about lawnmower, man. To the Revenge of Joe. I thought you were talking about Cyber-Hell.

An online werewolf movie I just made up. Here's the thing. He turns into werewolf online. HTTP, cool and backslash, backslash, scare. Yeah, backslash, backslash. Backslash. Backslash. backslash backslash scare backflash backslash Is that like an hv lovecraft you know what backslash would be a pretty good name for a horror Max flashes are pretty good. Yeah, Ww.ampire.com Yeah, like a Romanian Wampire

I see the W's become I thought it was WW dot empire like empire. Oh, yeah. And it's my off-brain empire fan sex. Spookamups.gov. Yeah. Oh, that's America on scared. That's terrible. Okay, well, what about a, a, a, a,

comp you scare. Come on Come you the other you go. Prodigy, but scary Angel fire's of hell net scar Boogeons dot biz Really a dot business domain name, okay, it's business Clips dot pizza There's a pizza. Look it up. Those modern families. Yeah.

Oh man. Yeah, so let's try this fucking thing up. Unfriended, isn't it? Welcome to the podcast, everybody. I'm Ellie Kaelin. I'm Stuart Willingtown, and I'm the ghost with the most. Speedl juice. Yeah.

Wow, that's a huge name. And name three times. I only said it once, it was after you showed up. I said, Candy Man three times, you showed up. I'm talking to your manager. He's busy. This is not the ghost I was. He's making a personal appearance in Vegas.

And you didn't put a notification on your site that Candy Man would be unavailable for the day Figure that I was pretty good. I was a pretty good replacement. I mean, you're great. I love you beetle juice You're great. So hard so for candy man. Yeah, you're pretty great Mr. Candyman can I put that on my business cards? Wrong endorsement from C man And then there's like it also says not bad from J man just Juana man. Now, which is totally a movie and not something you just made up. No, it's a real movie unlike that Witterwolf Online movie, which I did make up CyberHallie with CyberHallie.

Yeah. It starts C Thomas Howell as an internet billionaire who uploads his brain onto the net creating cyberhowl. So he could start a web series of so many. Wow, that's one way to do it. To end the race crisis in America, yes. So anyway, unfriended. Well, as long as I'm going to continue to call it unfriendable, is about it's a horror movie that takes place on the internet. The entire film is seen on one screen, which is where there's a skype hangout happening between a bunch

of high school friends who have a lot of secrets, which will out in time. Secrets and lies. And a little bit of violence. And a little bit of violence. And by little bit of violence I mean very little. Yes. Oh boy. A lot of just chatting, chatting away.

And then. So this is a movie that came out of movie theaters, right guys? It certainly did. And it did very well. Yeah, it did just come out of your computer. It didn't just come out of my computer. It did come out of a woman's uterus. No, it came out of a movie theater.

It didn't burst forth from Zeus' skull. Holy moor. Didn't emerge on a seashell out of the ocean. So I did just show up at your door, knocking on the door and say, hey, it's me, I'm friend. We're nothing but a trench ghost. I guess I'll let you in. That's never been part of a curse or anything.

I'll let you cross my threshold, even though I've placed a new rushes down to prevent such spirits from entering the home. Okay, so the reason I asked is because this movie looks like I'm looking at a computer screen the whole time. Yeah, so that's the gimmick. I would imagine it'd be disoriented, disorienting to see on a big movie screen. Well, the whole time you're like, this is the biggest computer I've ever seen. Why are they showing a movie on it?

They should be using it to solve the world's problems. We're playing like, uh, one of the video games like a World of Warcraft. Well, we're playing descent, like in hackers. When they go to that hangout and they play descent on that huge screen. Oh, I just remember a bunch of skateboarding in that movie. They were skateboarding while someone was playing dissent on a beach, right? Let's shoot her game, play PlayStation.

Maybe? I don't know, I don't remember. Look, all I remember is hackers. Go out to your radio store and rent it today. Starting Fisher Stevens as... I mean, he's the villain, he's the Steven. He's playing himself? I assume so. So unfriendly, let's talk,. I assume so so unfriendly. Let's talk. Are you so?

You assume that unless notified by male ahead of time every actor is playing themselves in the movies. Well particularly Fisher Stevens. I can't see him and think that he's anyone else. Well, he disappears into the part of Ben in short circuit a short circuit, too. Yeah, it takes a tough man to make it tend to raise. That's racist. Very racist. Fisher Stevens got away with it because he's America's sweetheart.

You can't get away with it. He made a man, he said, I look, I made that racist movie, but now I'm going to save a bunch of dolphins. Are we okay, America? Are we cool? And America said, we are cool, Fisher Stevens. Our full other girl, man. So anyway,. Are the key to the city of America. So unfriended.

There's a bunch of friends. It starts out two teenagers are sexting on their sex. Is that sexing if you're well? Well, I guess it's not text. Is this what teenagers like? They're just talking to each other on their skips and they're hinting at their Video sex after a little bit of weird foreplay involving a fake play threatening with a knife The girl says not check off knife by the way it is check off knife. It has his name written on it

I Think you check the finger print you'll find the Anton check off just the last one use that knife You're right take him away boys, but I am great short story and playwright. How could I commit murder? Sorry, check off, take him away. No, who's not me, it was Uncle Vanya, who did it? So I'm supposed to believe that your fictional character came into our world like in some sort of monkey bone situation.

For the other one. Now, okay, classic monkey bone. Yeah, that's, that's a 1042, Dan. The movie that without that movie will be Goldberg never would have entered the sci-fi fantasy genre. You we'd have no theater or ex, but anyway, we haven't said anything about unfriended yet. So these two, these, these teens are making plans. They're gonna lose the Virginia. I thought it was there with her watching videos of her friend Suicide. Oh, you're right. Okay, before the teens are talking, this movie really

blurs together my mind because it's all teens talking on screens, teens on screens. Tonight, I'm left with you know, the you're right, it opens with we see a video of a girl drunk at a party and then later that video, there's video of her killing herself in a public place. She's a teenager and she's dead now. Uh oh, why did she do it? What was in that video where she was drunk at a party? It was so embarrassing.

She had no recourse but to blow her own brains out on a basketball court. Yep. Film level 11. Now, so it's being watched by Bailey, who's a teen girl. I thought it was Blair. Blair. Blair. Is a teen girl. I don't know these characters names.

Bailey does sound like a teen girl name. Sure it does, nowadays. Everyone's using weird names these days. Bailey, Blair, Beetle Bailey. Beetle Bailey. Yeah, Beetle Bailey is, I mean, most girls are named after beetle Bailey now. Either named beetle or Bailey.

I don't know, named Sarge. Where the general abstract. Miss Buckley. She was mixed, Miss last name Buckley. She was, she was, the event is not a a rocker character. The name after rumpled the journalist shoe. Yeah.

That's not a name for a person or a duck. It's not a name for anything other than a shoe. Yeah, okay. So we learn that this girl was embarrassed by a video of her drunk at a party. She killed herself. We learn that through. Sometimes this movie will introduce text on the screen. And you see, you see a cursor slowly go over it to make sure that you're the, the viewer is catching all of what takes four fucking ever for anyone to click on anything in this movie.

This movie is, it's designed for the slowest readers. I mean, those are the people like teens who go to horror movies. Yeah. Should be fast readers, but, uh, and I'm generalizing terribly. But yeah, there's a, one of the problems with the movie is that, and it's not a wholly unsuccessful movie. But one of its problems is that, yeah, I mean, critically it did okay. This is like on the edge of, this is on the razor's edge of our purview. Yeah.

Yeah. We're really, we're walking the tightrope with this one, folks. Is that it takes every, the clicking on things is very slow. A link will pop up and like Dan's saying, it'll hold for a long time as you wait for Blair to suddenly, to like finally click on this thing. And they're building suspense some of the time, but sometimes they're just being slow. And she's like moving her cursor around the whole time too. It's not just,

Well, yes, her computer doesn't fall asleep. Yeah, what do I, do I click on, I don't know. You get a minute, I don't, maybe I should click on that. There's a lot of parts where she's typing things and then deleting them or thinking about typing stuff and then deleting it. And one time that gives us some information we wouldn't otherwise have,

but usually it's just kind of time filler. But so she is the director off camera like tell the person to stretch. Yeah, because they shot this in real time with the actress actually operating the cable. Yeah, this movie is only a hair over 80 minutes long. So pretty much stretching, you know. Yeah, it's a it's a it's a it's in out and done. It could this could have been a tight 70 minute like bottom half of a double bill. Right. Back in the back in the old days before the internet, ironic, because what would they make the movie

about? For people on like a party line, like a future, like a telephone party line or something. Telegraph and each other. They're just telegraphing each other videos. There was a there was a embarrassing description in the local like Penny Dreadful. There was still like a time lapse of several weeks for the pony express delivers of photographs. I like how in our minds technology was either the pony express and telegraphs or the internet and Skype. There's nothing to be.

So there are steamships in there somewhere. Yeah, steamships of the mind, floating through the clouds. Yep. Anyway, so I guess Blair was remembering her friend Laura killing herself. And then she gets interrupted by a call from a boyfriend who's not wearing a shirt.

They have their weird flirting involving a knife and they say, I think on prom night, we should do it finally. And he's like, well, that's great. Suddenly, they're broken in on by their friends who are all Skype calling each other. Yeah, the gang's all here. There's Blair and her boyfriend, Mitch.

There's Adam, who's kind of the jerk. He's the AC Slater of the group. There's Ken, who's the kind of like, I think you're Miss representing AC Slater. I don't know. There's, AC Slater is the slightly more aggressive, slightly less smart Zack. Yeah, but he's not, he's an army brat.

He's not wealthy like Adam is in this movie. I guess that's true. You're right. They're totally different. I'm just trying to map these characters. You've got Jess who is, she's a blonde. Yeah. She's blonde and kind of mean, but she's not.

It's supposed to be kind of slutty, I think. Yeah, but she's not a Jesse Spano or a Lisa turtle So we don't really know who she is blare is clearly the Kelly Kupowski So what is her last name turtle? Because her dad's a turtle and then here's the fat party dude. He's great. Okay, the nerd because he uses has computer skills that later on And he is totally undatable by any of the other leads all right skills debt later on and he is totally undatable by any of the other leads. All right. Check it out.

Your math checks out. Okay. And he's wearing an all over print t-shirt, which is a sign of a real party, dude. Yeah. And he talks at one point about how he made his own salsa. So that happens to. It's check off salsa. They're all talking about fake salsa.

They kill some time for a while, just kind of bines Fo insulting each other talking about what aves and then they notice that there's a mysterious Person who's just represented by a graphic this guy just kind of generic graphic who's been listening in on their conversation And none of them can seem to figure out how to hang up on this person. It's almost like there's a ghost in the machine But whereas that term really means kind of like the spirit inside of our physical being, you know, the soul, if you will, here it means a literal ghost that's inside of a computer. But we don't know that yet because... It's a cuckoo ghost. Inside a cuckoo computer.

The... I don't... it's... it would be sad if you thought somebody was really scared but turned out they'd just have a stutter. That's terrible. Anyway, long story short, this faceless thing starts interacting with them and sending messages to Blair, implying, we're not implying, hinting or outright stating that this is actually the ghost of Laura Barnes, their friend, their friend Laura, who was cyber bullied into killing herself.

How come? What's in that video that we need to find out about? And that's like intercut with her, like checking this forum that has news about people who interact with ghosts that then kill themselves. The forum is literally like, do not communicate. It's like warning, do not communicate with ghosts on your computer.

Yeah, there's a bulletin in a batter on Facebook. This lady communicated with a ghost on our computer and then three days later she died. That's basically what it says. Yeah, yeah. I mean, this is basically Samara from the ring who, but instead of coming out of a TV, just kills you with your computer. Yeah. It lives in the internet.

Yep. Terry Brooks is sort of Samara. She feeds on fan art. Oh, wow. Terry Brooks is short of Shimara. She feeds on fan art. The more the more slash fake about Kirk and Spock she reads the stronger she gets. They're slash fake about everything dude. It's crazy. That's true. That's true. I bet they're fucking unfriended slash fake. Do you think there's any Bill Clinton now, Gore-slash fake? Oh man. Let's check it out. All right, Dan. Just ring it up on your computer. No save search. We want to

we want the FBI to know about this. All right. There it is. A million hits. Enhance. Enhance called lover and chief. Oh wow. Okay. It's story checks out. Very romantic. A lot of cuddling. Why are you read that fast? Yeah. Dan's a speed reader, which is why this movie doubly bothered him. Because he was able to read things many times over before people clicked on them. But anyway, one by one, everyone gets adurbed and freaked out by this thing, which seems

to know secrets about all about of them. And it's a ghost, that's why it knows it. But it's kind of for a wild blur of things that her boyfriend is trying to prank her. And she thinks everybody else is trying to prank them. Everybody turns on each other. They bring another friend in. A friend of theirs, Val shows up who none of them really like. And she's like one of those queen bee types.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. She's like a real mean girl. Okay. Yeah, she's kind of a clueless. Okay, thank you, bro. She's kind of a knight of the comment. She's a real bring it on. She's not an easy a no She's kind of a Heather. Oh, okay. Yeah, from the film of the same name. She a beetle. She's Neither is she a greatest show on earth

How about a drive me crazy? She wanted Maybe yeah, possibly where she's gone crazy or ten things I hate about you. She's a real She's out of control license. Oh, that's hate about you. She's a real she's out of control license Oh, that's the way it was thing. Oh, she's a real my father the hero Okay, I've got her picture now. Okay, I did a real word picture She my father is a hero the Jackie Chan movie. We're such a jelly movie. I think it's jelly Oh, I think she said jelly movie That's our little kids we gently

You say you're making them a Peter butter peanut butter and jelly sandwich and they're like how did you get jelly into that sandwich? I'm terrified. I don't want to eat that sandwich packs a punch I don't want to eat that sandwich packs a punch. I don't want to eat it, man. Yep. This sandwich has kids, has a kid. This is a real... Kid in the real knowledge of Jet Leads filmography. This sandwich has the USDA recommended daily

allowance of iron monkey. Anyway, so Val is revealed. She was one of the people who cyber bullied Laura. Laura sent her a text saying, why did you do this? I'm sorry, I was mean and Val said, why don't you kill yourself? And Laura did and Val is like, ah, I didn't, and they lose sight of her.

Then she shows back up on the, and they're like, what happened to Val? What happened to Val? She shows back up on the phone. She's not moving. And there's a bottle of bleach next to her. And then she kind of falls over. Then the police come by.

She's called the police. And I guess the ghost told her not to call the police. I forgot about that part. And the police come by and she's, they name it a suicide by bleach. Yeah, but they do it with police code. So that lets us, let's our heroine, Blair or Bailey as we've come to know.

To, to, to Google search police code. So we figure out she's committed suicide. And then the police accidentally show her face. And for a moment, we stare into the depths of madness. Mm-hmm, the scob ant. Then we move, they're all freaked out. They're like, ah, our friend Val, ah, ah, ah, ah. And you know how it's gonna go.

One by one, different secrets will be revealed and characters will be off. Ken gets killed next because of course he does. He's the least, he's the party dude that is not like a super hit prototype. He's, he's better rude at it. He's crude and rude. And his attitude is. His jokes are lured. Yeah, I'm glad he's not nude.

His favorite Kronenberg movie is The Brude. He loves The Crude. The way he likes his beats, dude. Favorite type of gum, already been chued. Favorite French chef, Daniel Balloude. His favorite psychologist is fruit. He mispronounces it. He's pretty dumb.

But he's the smart guy because he gives them a program that lets them kick the ghost off their Skype call. So the ghost says, if you hang up, you die. We're going to play a game. If you hang up, you die. We're gonna play a game. If you hang up, you die. It's not much of a game. And Ken gives them this program that gets from trying to-

You're critiquing the rules of this game. Well, they play another game later on that's more of a game. Yeah, it's like fucking quidditch. Yeah, where you score points for no reason since there's a magic-weeting machine. Yeah, there's a snitch that you can just get that shuts the whole fucking game down. Yup. Yeah, do

it fucking game that snitch gets a stitch. There were once across the street from us in the park across the daily show offices, there were kids that like Quidditch camp and there's the saddest thing I think I've ever seen. They're just walking around with brooms between their legs just throwing balls at each other. That's not leaving. They were pretty saddlesore at the end of the day. I'd imagine. Oh, yeah, there's a lot of liniment that gets used in Quidditch.

That's the scene they cut. They cut out a Harry Potter was Harry with his pants off. And what's named dobley that elf was just rubbing liniment into his life. He's got a red well to cross. Upper thighs. Okay, getting too graphic. Look, I was I was toeing the line there, but you went too far. Right next to his testicle.

Save it for your, just save it for your Harry Potter house elf fanfic. All right. And then Ron Weasley came in and he said, every, why don't I do that? Mm-hmm. Yeah. And then Dobby's like, we can all do that

because Dobby talks like I do. I think I have some. Dude, he's like, give a shit. He doesn't have an accent. I'm like, I do that. That people who have accents do it because they give a shit. Like, just try it too hard.

It's trying. But if you don't care, you're really cool. You don't need to make yourself interesting with an accent. You're going to fucking pillowcase probably. Just talk regular default human voice, which is American English from the like Northeast to Midwest. Anyway, so Ken gets the, he because he has dared to fight the ghost. Ken Cosmode did lose an eye, I guess.

But Ken has dared to fight the ghost and use his virus tricks. And let me tell you about this. Okay, here's his side note. They did a- Very curious over here with his virus tricks. What? Very curious, was a radio, it was a nuclear physicist. Or a chemist, rather. She just goes, radio, I don't know what,

she doesn't fight in viruses. Not that you know of. I have some real issues with your Mary Curie video game where she shrinks down to microscopic size and throws a radium at germs and viruses. Yeah. I think you just took an inner space game. Yeah, it was my Dr. Mario sequel. We know the problems with Dr. Mario.

No basis in historical facts. Yeah. You have two options, fever or chill, and it's just a difference in music. So in history, Dr. Mario was not a real doctor. He just liked giving women breast exams in the back of a van. He was arrested, thankfully, before he could disappear down a sewer pipe. Yeah, ironically, the man who risked him, officer Wario.

Holly would really twisted that tail in the retelling. So they're doing a good job with Blair of building up that she's looking at other stuff on her computer. There's just like other open tabs. And she's having trouble using this virus-destroying program and erasing the files and deleting them forever because she still has a quick time window open that just says it's Miley Cyrus on SNL.

And I like that, that was like a real world moment to have be creating tension in your hard movie that you can't erase the things the file is still in use. Yeah. I do like the, even though there was a weird like countdown thing that showed up all of a sudden and sometimes as movie also, like music cues and sound effects appear, and I don't mean like a song plays, it's just like scary atmosphere music seems

to play in the background every once in a while, and I'm like, is that coming out of a computer? Like it has to be. It's diagetic. Okay. So I like the fact that Ken, when he dies, when the ghost makes him die, we've established that he's made the salsa earlier.

Yeah, this is just good screenwriting. And he apparently makes his salsa with a blender. And then later on, we see flashes of him with his arm and a blender being like, and then he breathes, smashes the glass and the blender cuts his throat. And here's the thing, of course he's in a blender. He's lazy, he's gonna chop up all those tomatoes.

Yeah, he's so, he wants to get right to the chilling in the party, indeed. As he drinks salsa out of a blender, it is bedroom. Because he made the salsa with the blender and his bedroom. Moisted by his unpertard blender wise. I mean, we're also you guys make him salsa then in your bedroom. Yeah, it seems weird there you would making salsa. Then in your bedroom.

Yeah, it seems weird that you would have a functioning blender in his bedroom. So, how many of you guys lazy? He doesn't want to go all the way to the kitchen. But I mean his parents should have stopped him from doing that. I mean, he eats a quart of salsa every evening. I mean, I guess it's good that he's eating vegetables, right?

It's the only way his parents can get him to eat them. So Ken dies, but only after finding a camera in the air vent of his room or something, which has never really explained. Nor does it need to be explained or make sense. It's one of the moments, there are a couple moments where the movie seems to be like trying out what its ghost can do. Like when you first get a game in the mail and you're just like pressing on the mail, just first by a game. What do you you're just like pressing on the mail just first by game

What do you got a fucking game-blind membership? It's a horror for the Amazon or something and you you're trying out all the buttons to kind of see what they do There's parts in the movie where it's like can our ghost stick a camera and someone's events sure why not okay Well that coming handy not really and what does it go to the camera in the first place? To make things spooky. All right. I guess, or just movies are a visual medium. Just, I guess just a spine can undressing maybe. Yeah, well, I mean, it doesn't even necessarily have a physical camera. It could just be like at the manifestation of the ghost or something.

That's true. It's eyes are the camera. Yeah, it goes just hanging on the camera. Now, he also, there's no shots of like literally a ghost sitting or something. That's true. It's eyes are the camera. Yeah. You guys are just hanging on the camera. Now, he also... There's no shots of like literally a ghost sitting in a computer like typing messages to them. They also do.

And what if this goes to just at the public library using one of the views? Sure, masturbating. One of the things the movie also does is it uses meme type things a bunch. So it sends Blair pictures of her in bed with her boyfriend's best friend Adam, who's also in on the Skype call. But in, you know, those block white letters that are used in meme pictures, it's like not your boyfriend's question mark or something like that. Everyone types in like teen speak too, so it's a lot of like letter U instead of the word U. Just misspellings all over the place. Seriously. Yeah, seriously so it's a lot of like letter you instead of the word you just misspelling all over the place.

Seriously. Yeah, seriously. It's realism. Anyway. So many question marks. One by one. One question mark will not suffice. Excessive, punctuation.

Once can is out, it's time to play the game I have never or did I ever never have I ever and the way they play it is it doesn't matter. But there. When you were in high school, Elliot, did you play that game a lot no it was more of a college game okay yeah I played in high school with a bunch of Catholic school girls and it was crazy I really yes it was crazy so we I was shame I've heard about Catholic school girls was not just a rumor. It wasn't a rumor, Dan. All your dreams are true. We're gonna have to take a break, everybody.

I feel like I dated the wrong Catholic in high school. You were dating the Pope. Yes, no one didn't get anywhere, Dan. He took a vow of absence and chastity and popishness. But I feel like when I played it in college, it was just a lot of like, you say the thing and then you drink rather than here it was, there was a whole elaborate scheme of like, you hold up your fingers, hold up your fingers and you count it down from five. I think it's just a more visual way of doing it.

Yeah. And to build tension. Oh, I forgot earlier. So that that vowel, the had been the ghost had made it look like the friend Jess had put pictures up of Val, who's, we all know will kill herself from with bleach. Like, made put up pictures of her to party where she's getting drunk and high. So the ghost has access to everything that's on everybody's computer and also their Facebook profiles. Oh, no. And she's like, my friend on Facebook. Yeah, as was Jess's, no vals.

Well, vals did, anyway, doesn't matter. So, so vals did, Ken's dead. They all reveal their secrets, turns out they've betrayed each other in petty ways. One called the cops on the other, one for selling pot, one stole money from another one. They find out that Jess started a rumor about layer having an eating disorder and...

Blair slept with Adam. Matt finds out Blair slept with Adam. Yeah, that's the big deal. And Adam and Blair both get something printed out on their computers. And Mitch is freaking out. He's like, even though my friends are dying, I am way more upset about the idea that my best friend slept with my girlfriend. And there's a video of it that the ghost sends though. Yeah, you don't watch that video dude

No, come on you can't unsee that but also as you said while we're watching it dude you're in high school You're gonna get over it. Yeah, you'll get over man. It gets better Yeah, but there it matches It's better when you leave high school ghost out to her many you That's your video and Dan Savage calls you as like Stuart this video. I appreciate your effort. It is not helpful. This is not the problem that that this is not my brand. Yeah. Also not true ghosts go after adults all the time. It's called a Christmas Carol. Watch it or read it. Yeah, that's a pretty good, that's a pretty good

uh, so we're seeing. Yeah, uh, so the, so at they get something printed out and Mitch is like, no more secrets, show me what it is. If you don't show me, I'm gonna hang up and Blair's knows that if Mitch hangs up, he's gonna die because a ghost is gonna get him. And so she shows on the paper and it says, if Mitch sees this Adam dies, an Adam who was waving a gun around earlier shoots himself in the head. Ah, quick check back on the message board about whether you should talk to ghosts, where there's a thing at the end about how ghosts can take over your bodies and make him commit suicide. Then back to the main conversation. Now it's just his turn to die. I don't remember why this

time. Yeah, I don't remember. But she runs into the back. She had to face her grave Yeah, I guess something like that. Yeah, she did and she runs into the back. Well, yeah, I just remember that like we never talked about what the video was the cost Well, we haven't gotten that part yet. I don't know. I was not there yet I don't remember when they revealed the reveal just get to Jess's death Okay, Jess dies me It every time someone dies like blips out and then blips back to a quick shot of them dying and then blips out again. And it blips back to Jess and she has a hot curling iron stuff down her throat. And she's just choking the death. And while

burning on the inside, that is ridiculous. That is crazy. And I think I think the horrifying thing is this ghost imagination. Yeah. If only it'd been some kind of, I don't know, like a sandwich. It was an ironic, like a supreme type sandwich. It was an ironic death because the thing she cared most about were her beautiful curly locks. Yeah, which she cut off to buy that watch chain for the ghost. Oh, but I sold my watch to buy you the ghosts and combs. But wait, wait, wait, I lost her. It's a metaphor. Oh, but I sold my watch to buy you the ghosts some combs, but wait

Just introduce the carrot How many people are in this story then This is a very simple parallel. I'll let you have screwed it up big time. It's love trying how many Magi's are there? There are three I guess yeah, yeah, so Magi's are there there are three I guess yeah, yeah, so She then it the ghost sends them a meme that says I She finally STF you mean She's a fuck and but you're like I wish it was a Whittier meme that was ghosted sent like You wish this this ghost was like a famous Twitter meme creator

Yeah, I wish that it was an image of her with a hot iron or throat and then sunglasses floating down. And then it cuts us to the keyboard cat, just playing her off. Now that would have been a meme. So I think now is around when we finally see the video, which is so Laura is drunk at a party boasting about something. And then the video follows her over to where she is.

Yeah, she's not a ghost. She's a future ghost as we all are. She's a pretty ghost. She's a pretty ghost or an old person as I call them. So she's that at the party the night she got drunk and passed down on the ground and pooped herself. Yeah, and there's poop all coming out of her pants and that's on the video and it turns out somebody posted that video and then wrote and the name of the video was like and then they wrote on it Leaky Laura and then the name of the video is Laura kill yourself now I mean now I'm just a guy who has poop in his pants all the time Dan you don't see what the bro I poop like a million times I'm It's nvd. I mean it's, I wanted someone to say to Laura, look, everyone poops. There's a book you can read about it.

It gets better, okay? She was like, you know, damn savage calls you again, Stuart. This is, I appreciate the enthusiasm. Stop pooping when you get out of his hole. That's one not scientific thing. I agree with you. You poop a lot more with your older. And two, it's not, the problem that these teens

are dealing with is not that they're pooping. It's a natural thing everybody does. And you're like, I know that's what I'm trying to tell them. If it was natural, why did people tell all the killers else? It's a general one white shorts. After Labor Day. I'm not saying that a video of someone pooping themselves wouldn't be like super embarrassing because it is.

Like that would be a super embarrassing thing to have. I mean, it's not a video of her pooping herself. It's the after effects. It's not like you see her like, she's not a whole dog. I'm just proching training. But would you be oddly sure that I think? Yeah, the butt is where it came out of, Dan.

But after all this buildup, I expected something less silly than... I expected it was going to be like her with like... shorts. Her with like... shorts. Her with like three guys on hers. And like something where you can understand like, this is something that she is ashamed of having either been a part of or she was taken advantage of.

And she can't live with that shame. Something where there's something really like transgressive. It's horrifying. Yeah, this really horrifying. I just like that it was. As if it was just moving the face. Check out poop pants over here. You guys are playing with fire. You got a ghost that's going to come kill you soon.

No, we were just we didn't want you to kill yourself. It's all poopy, but it is it is a weird anti-climax to find out that it's because you passed out with poop in her pants. Like it's as ghost motivations go. It's pretty low on the scale. Really lame. I mean, our motivation is that she died. Sure.

Well, she made that choice. That's a good point. She was cyberbullied. How is she gonna race the- How is anyone gonna hire her in the future knowing that once she had poop in her pants? That kind of thing follows you. Much as poop in your pants follows you, because it's in your pants with you. It's trapped in your pants, Dad. So I'm going to jump the gun here, guys,

and talk about powers that I wish this ghost had. And one of my wish is that it would make the room smell like poop. What it was about a possessive thing. The thing you're going to say, the power of me, like she made like one of the other people poop their pants. Great to. So violently that they died. If there if there if there if clearly there's no God in the universe of this. That's how Tom is just and died by the way. If there was he would have given her merely the power to make other people poop in their pants.

And then we would have been five teens on chat being spooked out and each of them pooping in front of each other. And then never talking to each other again because they're so embarrassed. The weirdest, the biggest coincidence of this movie is that before we started to watch it, I mentioned how I was scared that I might poop my pants, and Dan would make me walk home with pants full of poop. But little did I know the movie would revolve, the crux of this movie, or crux, if you will. No, but not want something to pass. Much as it follows tapped into my personal fear of being chased,

you're, you this tapped into your personal fear of poop in the pants. Let me tell you, it's a loss of control. I live with somebody who poops his pants all the time and he seems totally cool with it. Mm-hmm. Enjoy it even. Uh, I don't know about that. I mean, he's a little proud sometimes. Uh, so anyway.

So Blair and Adam are the only ones left. Blair has clearly chosen, no, Matt, Blair or Mitch. Mitch, Mitch. Blair and Mitch for boyfriend, the only ones left. Blair has clearly chosen Mitch over Adam by allowing him to be killed by the ghost to save Mitch. I'm getting killed, yeah. Yeah, I'm going to kill. Uh, Jess is dead now.

Mm-hmm. And there's just the two of them. Now, earlier when Blair was typing to Mitch, she was about to tell him over text that Laura had been, I guess, like molested by her uncle when she was younger and so she had these issues, but she deleted all that and didn't tell him. Now, Laura, the ghost is like,

who put the video up? Mitch put it up, didn't he? Mitch put it up, didn't he? Mitch put it up, didn't he? And Laura's and Blair is typing, no, Mitch didn't do it, delete it. No, he didn't, he's a good person to delete it. And then finally she just types, yeah, he did it. And she kills Mitch by having the knife

that he was using earlier just fly straight through his eye. Yeah, yeah. Laura has, and a Blair. Check off, it's nice. Blair has gone to the message board, yeah, that knife a, and a Blair. Check-ups knife. Blair has gone to the message board. Yeah, the knife check-up killed those people with. Blair has gone back to that message board. It tells her the only way to stop this ghost is to admit wrongdoing.

Okay. There's an easy four-step plan for not for stopping the ghost. I don't know why she didn't read the whole message board. One stop, two drop, three roll. Open up, show. Or admit wrongdoing. And then be up. Rocksteady not included.

Now what? So the, so she says, I'm sorry, we're good people. We didn't mean to do this. And Laura the Ghost is like, oh really? Well, take a look at this video. And she puts up, finally, we see the unedited poop pants video. And at the end of it, we see- What the audience has been dying for.

We see that though Mitch was the one who uploaded it, T was Blair that shot the tape as she turns the camera around on herself at the end and laughs. Bum, bum, bum. Classic hitchcock move. Yeah. This is gonna be this provenant classic

M Night Shyamalan move. And that she, oh no, she's the one who did it. Laura The Ghost uploads the full video to Facebook. Everyone sees it and starts telling Blirdy Kill herself. And she's like, well, no, no, ah. And then shuts her computer and a ghost kill server. Yeah. And a ghost jumps out at her.

As you pointed out, Elliot, it seemed like overkill. It seemed like it should be like one or the other. Either The Ghost publicly shames her or The Ghost at her. As you pointed out, Elliot, it seemed like overkill. Like it seems like she'd be like one or the other, either the ghost publicly shames her or the ghost kills her. Like publicly shaming her and killing her, doesn't really like. It felt a little bit like the end of Drag Me To Hell where she's accomplished the thing she was supposed to do. And she's been chasin' like she's no longer

the callous person she was, but she goes to hell anyway. Like, because she has the wrong coin in her pocket. Although that's one of the things I like about dragging the hell is like the ultimate punishment so outweighs the crime. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

But so this movie, I'll give it this. So the movie literally ends with a smash cut to the title card, so it's unfriended, and then it goes right in some awesome teen dance music. Oh yeah. Which had us shaking our booties. We were all dancing in the dark, just like Bruce Springsteen and I guess, yeah, in like Bjork in that movie.

What? The dancer in the dark movie. Yeah, well, yeah, Bruce Springsteen movie. Yeah, or Bjork played Bruce Springsteen. Bjork Springsteen. That is miscasting. I gotta say. She was very good though.. That is miscasting. I gotta say. She was very good though.

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Anyway, or tickle juice. Anyway, so let me say this about the movie. I didn't love it. I didn't even kind of like it. But I feel like it. But I feel like it. Wow, pre-final judgments. Oh yeah, I feel like we kind of like it. That I feel like it. Wow, pre-final judgements. I feel like it's a movie.

But I was like, for a movie that is a static shot of a screen and everything's just moving around on that screen. I thought they did a very good job of keeping focus and not having you feel like you were just watching one image for an entire film. I mean, it's not. And they don't, I don't think they break the rules of the movie very much. No, I don't think so. But even the aforementioned weird music cues.

And when they give ghost extra powers, like for the most, but they, I feel like they, you don't know anything about ghosts. They can have every power in the book. All I know is I am afraid of. He goes power book. Yeah. He goes power book.

Now let's do, it's called the Bible. What? The only is to ghost. So, okay, we can do file. Let's do, it's called the Bible. What's the holiest of ghosts? So, okay, we can do final. Let's do shock to her final judgment. Is this totally terrifying? Is it totally snorifying? Or is it frightfully funny?

Ellie, you've already... Well, it doesn't really fit those categories. I didn't think it was totally terrifying. I thought it wasn't totally snorifying either. Like I said, it was not, I didn't think it was totally terrifying, but I wasn't totally snorifying either. Like I said, it was not, I didn't love it, but I thought that as an experiment and doing a movie like this, it was successful much of the time.

From a directorial point of view, I think the concept was very successful. I found the characters entirely irritating. And the punishment did not fit the crime. I'd like we were saying, the revelation that it was poop pants. That was the cause of the of the whole mystery was an anticlimactic one. I felt like this was not the right. This

was a great vessel and the story that was filling that vessel was not the right one. Yeah, I mean, they did not let the right one in to the vessel. So if this vessel was a pair of pants, this movie didn't poop the pants full of poop. No, the movie would be poop. I think you don't want it pants. I don't guess. This movie, this, this, these pants deserve to shapely behind, but instead they got poop. Okay, I'm gonna go with you on this. Uh, I thought I kind of liked it, but it's, it's more than I was

like impressed. Like I saw the trailer for this. I'm like, this is going to be shit. And largely it was literally large. The, the, the mostly it was mostly like pulled off the conceit of the movie, but the one thing that it was not was scary. Yes. Like every time they killed someone, it was the silliest thing. Like, you know, Mr. put his hand in a blender or curling iron down the throat. Like, there was not a lot of...

Knife in the eye. Genuine scare. There was not a lot of genuine suspense. But I was engaged through the movie. I felt engaged in it too. I feel like it would have been scarier if just their screens blipped and when it came back, they were missing. They just weren't there anymore.

Like the violent deaths, if anything, helped defray the tension too much. Yeah. It was like the door man scene in Macbeth. I would say I'm going to give this movie. You want to talk about Macbeth's more? But they call it a doororman back then? Yeah. I would give this movie a shriekfully decent to watch. There were some things that worked really well. Like I like the way the cameras were constantly digitizing the images. So you're getting a lot of after images. And that was generally, they're frightening thing when you see someone's face kind of Distort that way. It's genuinely frightening. Yeah, I feel like that stuff is creepy. Yeah, in general

That's why I don't have a lot of those like sexy video conversations with people That's the only reason Because you can have them if you wanted. Oh, yeah, why not? I'm a super famous podcaster, dude. Yeah, yeah But you're right like the imagery it, a lot of it was really like the way they did those digitizing bits was really good. Yeah. And the, I feel like you were mentioning ways that it could have been better. And yeah, like either just disappearing or tying in was something I mentioned the ring earlier, but I thought the ring did a good job of or tying in was something, I mentioned the ring earlier, but I thought the ring did a good job

of showing a person who was killed by mysterious means and it's totally gross and horrifying. And they didn't have to have somebody stick his face on a blender. It was like the like Jigsaw, like Nightmare and Elm Street aspect of those killings. Where it was it could have been spookier grossness if it wasn't goofy grossness.

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Thank you. I'm glad we could play a part in it. That's an inspiring tale of mine and Elle Elliot's types being rejected in favor of a Stewart type. It happens sometimes. It's called life. Yeah. And it happens a lot. And it's a serial. It gets guys. It gets better. Is that the video? Again, Stewart hides me, Dan Savage. I'm not even sure what this video is targeting it. Do people or friends of yours. I don't know why you couldn't just tell them this. Instead of making a video and putting it on our, it gets better website.

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get soggy and milk. There's just a well-vampired milk. There's a good reason we don't invite Count Chocula into our home. Well, that and diabetes. Keep up the good work. Amy last name was filled. Well, Amy, a pertinent warning. Yeah, the most powerful of vampires.

I thought he was weak against the talons of the fruit-brewt. No, no, they're friends. Oh, they're... Wait, do they like hang out and stuff for her? Yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah, that's some sort of monster mash Yeah, Boo Berry has a poker game every week. Yeah, they do not invite yummy mommy. Of course not You can't he has no tells because his face is wrapped in certain bandages And what's that front what's the Frankenberry? Is that the other one? Yeah, Frankenberry's one So, or is it Frankenberry's monster now? this is a big dilemma that we've had a lot.

It's Frank and Barry is just a serial named after its creator. So the fact that Frank and Barry's monster appears on the box is a totally different issue. That's a rights thing. Okay. Frank and Barry, the doctor is the kind of Thomas Pinchant type. He doesn't want to appear in photographs. And he creates cereal. And monsters, yes. Okay. He cobbles together cereal from bits and pieces of other cereal. Yeah, yeah, that's why when you open it up, there's like a little bit of lucky charms.

There's a cheerio. There's a crispics. It's all in there. It sounds like the contents of my couch cushions. It's delicious. So this next letter, as connoisseurs of all forms of cinema, I was wondering, I was wondering what your thoughts are on film titles that are questions and the corresponding answer.

Like who's Harry Crump? So what else could I say, dude? For instance, Uncle Buck. Gone with the wind. For instance, question, who frame Roger Rabbit? Answer, Doc Brown. Question, what's eating cupboard grape? Answer, Cagantuan mom, specials brother, Shagging Maristine Virgin. Question, a talking cat? Answer, I know, right?

What movie title questions have the most illuminating amusing or spoiler-tastic answers Ben last time with I mean Maybe what about Bob out of hell what about Bob? Is irritating irritating guy that everybody loves but Richie D. Yeah, that's what I call Richard dryface Now the question you know when you need us lies a drive I'm just calling. Hey, Richard D, come on by.

You do raise a good question though. Who is Harry? Wow, he's John Candy. Yeah, that's too obvious. Now that's too obvious. He's too obvious. I think they're trying to pull one over on us. Like, existential who's Harry?

You know, what are some other, I mean, there's lots of movies with questions in the title. I don't know, that doesn't really get me. Why don't I get me the great chefs of Europe? Yeah, you know, or why I like it married to wild hogs. That's not a question. Well, ho.

Juana. Oh, yes, I want a man. Why are you saying it like that? Are you Cajun? What I understand? Why are you saying it like that? Are you Cajun? Why would you pronounce it that way? No, I mean I I'm sorry for me to think of any that are particularly dumb aside from who's Harry Crom? So listeners write in and Remind us of all the great titles that are questions that are questions and then we'll respond to those questions with answers

Oh, all right. Okay. Yeah, it's a little game. We can play Much like a ghost would play. A home-like game. All right, the movie goes. What is it with killers and games? They always want to play them. Yep, it was like what we were talking about the other day about how all killers are also really like crafty.

And how they're making crafts. There needs to be a movie where the FBI serial killer profile goes undercover at a Michael's craft shop to drive and catch the killer Selling their murders on it. Yeah, exactly So last letter to the evening It was a little something like this. Hey, we all know that Elliott is obsessed with words. It sound like other words a subset of the main. It's a compulsion. It's his letter song, which is neurotic impulses put

to tune full gibberings. Now I enjoy the letter song. What's part about this episode is that you didn't really do a letter song. I'm trying something different today. I enjoy the letter song. It's a letter's erotic advertisement. As much as the next blocker.

But I sense Elliot's rhyming well has run dry. Accordingly, and to jumpstart the letter song segment and close, please find a list of words that sound like the word letters. I'm taking the liberty of striking those that Eliot has used in the past. Please ask Eliot to laminate this form. Popeye's cheeky grease stains anyone, and carry it to the stage. Yes, please. To future podcasts. Thanks, and keep up the great work. Your podcast could not be any better. Wink?

So here are the list of words. Because it rhymes with Eddie Better. Yeah. Dead or? Fredder. Go get her. Fredder. Oh, thank you, Fred, I say.

Oh, I thought it was if somebody was more Freddie Krueger than Freddie Krueger. Like if the shredder's real name was Fred. Like no, Fredder doesn't work. Let's go with something else while you're covered in knives. It's what shredder's roommate calls him. Shredder. Come to my party next week.

He's roommate. What? Rob Schneider. We're Fred's not. This red man. What? What? Rob? Or Fred's not red man. Yes, it's my room made a row coo sucky.

Making turtles too. Working with a robot with a brain in his belly The tech the drone is a little of a swear Jet setters friend dreams. In my dreams. So what are the words other? Ketter from Ancient Greek, the pure, originally used by practitioners of orphism. They're not using that one. Let her, met her.

I reced her. Oh, that's good. Sweater, wetter, pi-better. Upset her, header, dead her, chatter, shredder, wetter, pipe better, upset her, header, debtor, chatter, shredder, sletter, any better, bell pepper, dupin' meta. Okay, those are slith rhymes at best. Michael asked me with a little.

I appreciate the whole Michael. Oh really? He's a huge man. Thank you for your help, my God. I mean, and you were great in scanners. Yeah. And Starship Troopers. Sure, Starship Poopers.

And showgirls. He's been good in everything. Yeah. Ironically, not in Iron Sides. No. So this is the last time we do more letters. No, I think I sing another song. I don't think so.

Do we watch OnFront it again? This is the part of the show where we watch the movie a second time. Knowing what happens. This is the part where we recommend a movie that we actually liked. You know, in contrast to the usual crap and it being shot October, maybe a horror movie doesn't have to be. But it's a suggestion. Well mine is not.

So I'm going to go first guys because this one is going to ruffle some feathers. Maybe I should go last. Nope, just kidding. I'm gonna go first. So today guys, I'm gonna recommend a little movie that I think is about some kids who go to their grandma's house and then their grandma turns out to be a killer granny. That movie is in theaters now called The Visit. Now I'm recommending it. I haven't actually seen this movie. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

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I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I think it's, I think it's a found footage movie. Somebody's filming this, but granny having kids over, I don't know, it's crazy. And these kids find out their grandparents are more than meets. They're transforming, you know, to demons probably. So I think these, I think their grandparents try to kill them. I'm not sure, because as I said before, I haven't seen it yet. But you guys can watch it and then tell me what you think. Dan. So wait, you're recommending that people go see it and what review it for you. Yeah, sure. Why not? Okay. Dan, that was the most ludicrous review I've heard. Yeah, it's a few good top. You just got off a plane,

didn't you? I, you know, I, how I only movies did you see I actually only watch one move in the plane and I didn't like it enough to recommend it. I watched Tomorrowland which was better than I'd heard but not good enough to secure too distracted by the Emmy that was sitting on your lap. Yeah. Emmy Rossum from TV shameless would be distracted but I'm gonna recommend a movie that I actually haven't seen on a while, but I remember liking all the visits. Never saw it. It's a Trim to 66 minutes. It's structured by Jacques Turner and produced by Val Loon. It's called The Lepard Man. Okay, that is a good movie. There's some murders, a leopard escapes, but is it the leopard that's killing people? Or is it a man that's killing people? And it has, you know, all of

Jacques Turner's movies are heavy on the atmosphere, it's heavy on the suggestion. Well, Val Luton's movies. Yeah. Jacques Turner went on to do a number of different types of movies. That's true. You did it out of the past, right? Another is Jack Turner. No. Yeah, Jack Turner. When he came to Ellis Island, that's what they changed the name too. But Turner, D-Centri. This is the same guy. Same man who did I Walk With The Zombie or same team that did I Walk With The Zombie, the same team that did Cat People. the zombie the same team that did cat people This is a slightly lesser known movie, but very enjoyable has a cat in it if you're looking for a classic horror movie

You can do worse than the leopard man again a trim 66 minutes Have an hour till your appointment go ahead and watch it. You're only gonna be six minutes late You have an hour till your appointment? Go ahead and watch it. You're only going to be six minutes late. I am not recommending a horror movie tonight because I did not have one prepared because I don't have to answer to you people. I'm a busy man. I get lots of things in my flight. I am going to recommend a movie that is a 70s noir type movie. It's in many ways the movie that I wished Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye was, which is strange because Robert Altman produced this movie, not directed. And that's the late show with Art Carney and Lily Tomlin,

where Art Carney is an aging over the hill detective who gets drawn into a mystery when his partner is killed. And it's somehow related to Lily Tomlin's missing cat. And Lily Tomlin is very funny in it. It's not really a comedy per se, but there's a lot of funny things in it. Like clowns? Or?

Yeah, there's a clown, the villain's a clown. So a lot of whoopi cushions. But it operates in this. It's sprung to life, I do to evil magic. It operates in this place kind of between drama and comedy and the characters are really strong. And there's some great performances in it by some, what? What do you want?

Yeah, because Hercules is in it. Take it literally. I was just remembering that's to a recommended of her you didn't see it. There's some fun performances in it by Bill Macy, not William H. Macy, but Bill Macy from the TV show, Mawd. And Eugene Roche, who's a character actor who's in lots and lots of stuff, you'll recognize

him when you see him. And it's just a really like a movie that for the amount of murders it has in it is very sweet. So that's the late show with Art Carney and Lily Tomlin directed and written by Robert Pantin. Two solid recommendations and one question mark when that was more of a recommendation to go and have an adventure and life on the wild side

maybe see a movie that you haven't had recommended to you give it a shot maybe like it maybe you want worse than this couple hours and twenty bucks twenty bucks where you see this movie on marcy are you a mom? Mars needed me. So wait, that extra money is like the fucking like price to go to Mars? No, no, it's the M4. Yeah, no, that's, no, they just charge more on Mars. Because they got to get that.

They exchange rates fucking terrible. Is everything else to be rocket blasted up there? They have no, they're like, uh, and the exchange rate to Martian crowns is super bad. Is that the Martian super bad the movie you have to trade in a DVD copy of it So that's why earth is losing all its copy is of super bad Mars needs super bad So guys, that's one a shocktober down I want to say though the next episode of this podcast has been canceled. Because this is the Shocktober that the mystics have warned us about when they cast out the

runes, stones, and read them. They see four Shocktober episodes this year due to a boogins indeed, Elliot. A confluence of the number of weeks in October and a maximum fun promotion, though, before the Great Switcher Roo. Shocktober episodes. And that's what I wanted to say is the next episode of this podcast will be the McElroy Brothers as part of our Switch with the Adventure Zone. Wait, Griff Dog, Justinian. Uh-huh, and... Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, Treyv, as I said, the aforementioned adventure zone and my brother, my brother and me will be doing an episode of the show. I can't wait to hear it. They are. It's terrible. It's going to be a good episode. Now, is this us? Part of it is that I love the idea of

other people who have to do art. I have to do what we have to do. There's been a lot, there've been a lot of tweets that suggest that one movie has already broken them These these men who ate Totino's pizza rolls for an entire hour one time So they're Superman that'll be happening, but it also Coming up yeah bears mentioning that at the same time we will be over on their podcast the adventure zone playing that at the same time, we will be over on their podcast, the adventure zone playing Dungeons and Dragons. So check it out. Stuart was the DM, Dan was the,

Deid and know what he was doing. And what was Elliot? I was like a dragon man. Oh, you were a dragon man, huh? Which is also DM. Okay. And Dan McCoy, DM, we were all DMs. We were all DMs.

And we were all DMs. And we were joined by, we all the poop in the universe's pants We're all just like in the movie unfriendable I've been Elliott Want to say I don't know whether there's anything to add to that. Yeah, it's kind of like

So he's been Elliott poop pants Kaylen. That's the nickname I've been steward poopy face Wellington gross, and I've been dead. I'm not gonna play this game McCoy poop pants McCoy Hopefully it's something all good fright everybody Spooky. Barf. Podcast sandwich. Podcast sandwich. Podcast sandwich. Podcast sandwich.

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That's gross. I mean, I think if you paired it with the right meat, like a, like a, like a pimento loaf. Yeah. This is all gold. I hope this is all going into the bumper reel or the bump that's real. The bump that's real. You put it in your hair to make your hair super tall.

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